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The Future Of Music: Reconfiguring Public Performance Rights, Gary Myers, George Howard
The Future Of Music: Reconfiguring Public Performance Rights, Gary Myers, George Howard
Faculty Publications
This article focuses on two concrete measures to improve the music industry prognosis. Public performance rights have long been an important piece of the economic pie that helps support the music business. This article suggests that the scope of public performance rights should be fundamentally reassessed and expanded. This expansion involves two specific and complementary reconfigurations.
Myth Of The Level Playing Field: Knowledge, Affect, And Repetition In Public Debate, The, Jeremy N. Sheff
Myth Of The Level Playing Field: Knowledge, Affect, And Repetition In Public Debate, The, Jeremy N. Sheff
Missouri Law Review
The industrialization of the channels and scale of communication has led some well-meaning reformers to try to regulate the ability of powerful private actors to leverage economic inequality into political inequality, particularly in the area of campaign finance. Such reform efforts are ostensibly intended to further the deliberative democratic ideal of rational, informed public decisionmaking by preventing well-funded private interests from improperly influencing democratic debate and, by extension, political outcomes. This Article examines empiricalfindings in political science, psychology, and marketing and argues that, in the context of contemporary American society, the normative principles of deliberative democracy and formal equality operate …